tandm Posted May 22, 2004 Report Share Posted May 22, 2004 The hard drive in my laptop is dead. Anybody know of a local place that does hard drive recovery? Thanks smile.gif Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KennyFKINPowerz Posted May 22, 2004 Report Share Posted May 22, 2004 The laptop guy. 1440 W 5th Ave (614) 487-9674 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest nevarmore Posted May 22, 2004 Report Share Posted May 22, 2004 There are ways to DIY. What OS were you running? it it was NT/2k/XP go get NTFS Reader (http://www.ntfs.com/products.htm). Word on the street is that it'll read the files. It might clip the file names but the data will be there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest stvbreal Posted May 22, 2004 Report Share Posted May 22, 2004 What exactly constitutes as dead? What is it doing when you boot up? What OS are you running? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tandm Posted May 22, 2004 Author Report Share Posted May 22, 2004 Sorry I didn't clarify. I'm running OSX. The drive itself makes a clicking noise now. The computer won't boot at all. I've attached a firewire hard drive to the laptop so I can use it, but it doesn't see the internal hard drive. I also have a program called Data Rescue X that can't find the internal hard drive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nitrousbird Posted May 22, 2004 Report Share Posted May 22, 2004 Originally posted by 00 NHRA T/A: Sorry I didn't clarify. I'm running OSX. The drive itself makes a clicking noise now. The computer won't boot at all. I've attached a firewire hard drive to the laptop so I can use it, but it doesn't see the internal hard drive. I also have a program called Data Rescue X that can't find the internal hard drive.But I thought Apples were perfect and didn't break. I think it's a sign to ditch the Apple for something else. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tandm Posted May 22, 2004 Author Report Share Posted May 22, 2004 Originally posted by Nitrousbird: But I thought Apples were perfect and didn't break. I think it's a sign to ditch the Apple for something else. It's not a sign. I've had 3 Windows machines die on me, that's why I switched to Apple. And Apple doesn't manufacture the hard drive itself tongue.gif [ 24. May 2004, 11:34 AM: Message edited by: 00 NHRA T/A ] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PonyPimpstress1647545491 Posted May 22, 2004 Report Share Posted May 22, 2004 Originally posted by Nitrousbird: But I thought Apples were perfect and didn't break. I think it's a sign to ditch the Apple for something else. Funny, I said the same thing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PonyPimpstress1647545491 Posted May 22, 2004 Report Share Posted May 22, 2004 graemlins/doh.gif Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest nevarmore Posted May 22, 2004 Report Share Posted May 22, 2004 Ehh, check with the uber-geeks on one of the linux oriented boards (Google Directory). You may be able to slap a copy of *nix into the CD-ROM and recover some data. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buck531 Posted May 23, 2004 Report Share Posted May 23, 2004 If it's clicking.. the heads are hitting the platters. Unless you plan on spending $5k to restore the data.. just buy a new drive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drunkendubber Posted May 23, 2004 Report Share Posted May 23, 2004 Apple doesnt manufacture anything. hard drives eat it all the time specially the laptop variety. Good luck with the data recovery project. If the information is not that important just let it go as recovery can be expensive!!!. (IBM G5 < AMD 64) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stealthmonkey Posted May 24, 2004 Report Share Posted May 24, 2004 format.exe c: /q Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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